It is also possible, but equally doubtful, that he actually shot down the hundreds of men with which his legend credits him.

Isfahan became more of a legend than a place, and now it is for many people simply a name to which they attach their notions of old Persia and sometimes of the East.

There is a legend ( Hawthorne records it in his `` English Notebooks ''.

If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.

2 ) The concept that an `` American national folklore '' exists is itself probably another propagandistic legend.

Like Philadelphia's late Dr. Albert C. Barnes who kept his own great collection closed to the general public ( Time, Jan. 2 ), Thompson, at 61, is something of a legend in his own lifetime.

The mule is honored at Benson, N.C. ( Sept. 22, 23 ) and at Boron, Calif. ( Sept. 24 thru Oct. 1 ), while the legend of the Maid of the Mist is celebrated at Niagara Falls through the 24th.

The legend connected with its foundation is given by Peter Damiani in his Life of St Odilo: a pilgrim returning from the Holy Land was cast by a storm on a desolate island.

The first mention of " The Ashes " in Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack occurs in 1905, while Wisdens first account of the legend is in the 1922 edition.

Along with the Edicts of Ashoka, his legend is related in the later 2nd-century

There is a legend that as an infant, a swarm of bees settled on his face while he lay in his cradle, leaving behind a drop of honey.

Ajax, who in the post-Homeric legend is described as the grandson of Aeacus and the great-grandson of Zeus, was the tutelary hero of the island of Salamis, where he had a temple and an image, and where a festival called Aianteia was celebrated in his honour.

According to legend, Albertus Magnus is said to have discovered the philosopher's stone and passed it to his pupil Thomas Aquinas, shortly before his death.

" Given that Thomas Aquinas died six years before Albertus Magnus ' death, this legend as stated is unlikely.

This legend of Trebeta as having founded Trier is also found in Godfrey of Viterbo's Pantheon ( 1185 ) and several other German chronicles of the 12th or 13th century, including the works of Sigebert of Gembloux.

The legend is also found cited in compendiums of historical sources from later periods, for example Gottfried Leibniz's Scriptures rerum Brunsvicensium ( 1710 ) and the Anthologia veterum latinorum epigrammatum et poematum ( 1835 ).

* The White Lady is a type of female ghost reportedly seen in rural areas and associated with some local legend of tragedy.

* Uncle Sam ( initials U. S .) is a common national personification of the American government that according to legend came into use during the War of 1812 and was supposedly named for Samuel Wilson a meat packer in New York, who supplied rations for the soldiers.

An Urban legend is a form of modern folklore consisting of stories that may or may not have been believed by their tellers to be true.

The opera Les Danaïdes ( The Danaids ) is a five-act tragédie lyrique ; the plot was based on an ancient Greek legend that had been the basis for the first play in a trilogy by Aeschylus, entitled The Suppliants.

Many poems and plays, and two operas ( Les Abencérages, by Luigi Cherubini, and L ' esule di Granata, by Giacomo Meyerbeer ) mention the legend, but the whole story is doubtful, because the best historians do not mention it.

Amr Diab is one of the top singers in the Arab world and considered a living legend by many of his fans in the Arab world.

The legend is linked to an idea in the Book of Revelation ( 3: 12 and 21: 2 ) describing a Second Coming, wherein Jesus establishes a new Jerusalem.

* Another legend tells about the treason of Vuk Branković, Serbian feudal lord and son-in-law of the Serbian Prince Lazar.

According to this legend, Miloš was accused by Branković, at the eve of the Battle of Kosovo of intent to betray his lord Lazar and switch sides mid battle.

The public identified its title subject as none other than Stalin's daughter ( born in 1926, she could not have been Grabar's subject ; the legend persisted into 1960s ).

Western civilization was thus predisposed by legend to associate whatever palace ruin should be found at Knossos with the legends of Minos and the labyrinth.

Raphaelson ’ s son, Joel, born 1928, became a senior ad executive and close associate of advertising legend David Ogilvy.

Gómez is widely speculated to have been the foremost contributor to the development of the Gasparilla legend, although no pre-20th century account of him specifically associate his piratical exploits with José Gaspar, whose story, real or fictitious, does not appear in writing until about 1900, when it was included in an advertising brochure for the Charlotte Harbor and Northern Railroad company.

He is the son of César Concepción Jr. His grandfather was a Puerto Rican legend big band director César Concepción.

Waxahachie was the birthplace of Tom Blasingame, considered the oldest cowboy in the history of the American West, R & B singer Tevin Campbell, Bill Ham ( manager for ZZ Top ), Byron Nelson, a professional golf legend and Academy Award winning director Robert Benton, who made his 1984 film " Places in the Heart " in his hometown.

An urban legend says that art director T. M. Clelland mocked up the cover of the first issue with the $ 1 price because nobody had yet decided how much to charge ; the magazine was printed before anyone realized it, and when people saw it for sale, they thought that the magazine must really have worthwhile content.

He later became the ABA's commissioner, as well as the assistant coach and director of basketball operation of the Knicks during the 1980s, when DeBusschere drafted fellow Knicks legend Patrick Ewing.

Musical director was Canadian jazz legend Norman Amadio.

Although Red Star experience with Bayern was bad, ( two sequential losses a decade earlier ), the club was dominated by optimism, mostly outspread by Red Star legend and director Džajić, who had announced a victory in Munich.

Barry Corless, as director of rugby, set about restructuring the club and soon the Saints were back on the way up, helped by the signing of All Blacks legend Wayne ' Buck ' Shelford.

The bergfilm genre was primarily the creation of director Arnold Fanck, and examples like The Holy Mountain ( 1926 ) and White Ecstasy ( 1931 ) are notable for the appearance of Austrian skiing legend Hannes Schneider and a young Leni Riefenstahl.

Knowing that a key role in the film was a grizzled Greco-Roman wrestling legend, director Jules Dassin saids he " didn't want to pick an actor and train him to be a wrestler -- I wanted to do the opposite.

Born in Greenville, North Carolina, Barrett spent five years in prison for a 1993 armed robbery and on his release moved to New York City, where he met Black Rob and Busta Rhymes, and, according to legend, was signed by the A & R director of Jive Records after hearing him rapping in a club bathroom.

In 1956, he worked as program director at WHAT, a 250-watt R & B station in Philadelphia, where he discovered and launched the career of future Philadelphia radio legend Hy Lit.

In a club statement, managing director Gary Sweet branded Nicholls a Luton Town " legend " and " arguably the club's most successful captain ".

Given the title " The White Tatum " by jazz legend Art Tatum, Costa is best known for his work as musical director of the children's television program, Mister Rogers ' Neighborhood.

It has also been announced that Howard will re-team with Hustle & Flow director Craig Brewer for a film based on the life of country music legend Charley Pride.

Pronites has also hosted performers like music legend Asha Bhosle ( once with music director R D Burman in 1981 and again in 2010 ), Jagjit Singh, Shankar – Ehsaan – Loy, Sonu Nigam, Shaan, Amit Trivedi, Kailash Kher, Mohit Chauhan, Raghu Dixit, KK, Lucky Ali, Amit Kumar, Kavita Seth, Pankaj Udhas, Raghav Sachar, Agnee-the band and Javed Ali.

In 1829 he founded the literary magazine Revue de Paris, and from 1838 to 1852 was owner and director of Le Constitutionnel, in which he published Eugene Sue's novel based on the legend of the Wandering Jew.

Bush ; Congressman John F. Tierney ; television host and comedian, Jay Leno ; head coach of the New England Patriots, Bill Belichick ; baseball legend, Cal Ripken Jr .; award-winning actor and director, Robert Redford ; and poet, Maya Angelou.

Acclaimed stage and screen actor and director Behn Cervantes relates a reverse version of this legend, during the launching program for the UP Alumni Association's Maria Makiling Foundation, an advocacy group formed for the protection and conservation of Mount Makiling:

At the suggestion of one art director, she began working in greeting cards ; her first nationally distributed greeting card featured a malapropism that played off the old saying, " Life is just a bowl of cherries ," and showed a girl looking at a chair piled high with bowls, with the legend " Life is just a chair of bowlies.